Wild Courage: Go After What You Want and Get It
Jenny Wood

Wild Courage: Go After What You Want and Get It

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Jenny Wood

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A bold, empowering, and energizing guide to embracing your ambition and chasing after what you want from an executive who spent nearly two decades climbing the ranks at Google. " Extraordinary. " -Kim Scott
"It's about pushing past fear and daring to be yourself." -Dan Pink What if the traits you need to get ahead are the exact opposite of what you’ve been told?
To be successful you need to be Weird, Selfish, Shameless, Obsessed, Nosy, Manipulative, Brutal, Reckless, and Bossy. And that takes courage.
As a former Google leader and top career coach who chased an attractive stranger off the subway and later married him, Jenny Wood knows her way around courage. In this book, Wood shatters conventional wisdom about achieving your goals. She gives you permission to ditch your fear and chase after what you want, unapologetically.
Wood reclaims nine traits from their negative shackles and teaches you how to apply them in a savvy and sane way to supercharge your success, whether you’re trying to impress your new boss, snag a stretch promotion, or land a life-changing deal.
Wild Courage will teach you how to be:
Weird : Win as you or lose as “who?”
Selfish: Be your own champion.
Shameless: Kick impostor syndrome to the curb and self-promote with ease.
Obsessed: Push, persist, and perform at your highest level.
Nosy: Get curious to network confidently and learn from others.
Manipulative : Build influence with empathy and manage up like a pro.
Brutal : Draw lines and stick to them. Embrace the power of no.
Reckless: Err on the side of action and take healthy risks.
Bossy: Steer others to success, even if you’re not in charge yet.
Wild Courage coaches you to smash through your fear of discomfort, failure, and the judgement of others, to embrace your boldest self in pursuit of what you want. To be successful, you need to have courage. Wild amounts of it. Read more

Editor's Take

Reviews and book-community comments describe Wild Courage: Go After What You Want and Get It as an energizing, practical, and highly readable guide to pursuing ambition more boldly. Goodreads reviewers generally praise its encouraging tone and actionable advice, while one book review calls it an enabling guide with useful tips and observations. A few summary/review sites echo the same themes: embracing discomfort, reframing traits like selfishness or shamelessness as strengths, and using the book as a push to act on goals. The strongest overall takeaway is that readers who want a motivational, career-minded self-help book seem most enthusiastic about it.

For video coverage, search results surfaced multiple YouTube videos that appear directly related to the book and its author, including interview and summary-style videos about Jenny Wood and Wild Courage. The clearest YouTube items found were an interview titled Jenny Wood | Wild Courage: Go After What You Want and Get It and another titled The Wild Courage to Get What You Want, With Jenny Wood. No Amazon review page was surfaced in the results, so the synopsis above is based on Goodreads, book review sites, and YouTube content.

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Publisher Portfolio
Publication date March 25, 2025
Language English
Print length 256 pages
ISBN-10 0593717643
ISBN-13 978-0593717646
Item Weight 14.1 ounces
Dimensions 6.22 x 0.9 x 9.33 inches
Best Sellers Rank #143,661 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #25 in Career Advancement & Professional Development #1,778 in Leadership & Motivation #8,838 in Self-Help (Books)
Customer Reviews 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (308)

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